Windows By Decade
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Click on one of the links below to travel through time on the UC Berkeley campus and check out a window from that decade.
1903 -
Faculty Club
1917 -
Doe Library
1949 -
Doe Library Annex (Bancroft Library)
1959 -
Kroeber Hall
1964 -
Birge Hall
1980 -
Bechtel Engineering Center
1996 -
Tan Hall
2003 -
Hearst Mining Retrofit
Building: Faculty Club
Completion
Date: 1903
Architect: Bernard Maybeck
How is the
window made?
Wood frame. Two operable panes divided into 12
sections each. The wood frame is brown in the interior and green in the
exterior.
How does
it feel?
Comfortable light in the interior with not too much
glare mostly due to the vegetation outside. The wooden mullions increase
in section from the inside to the outside (see picture above) helping in
reducing the glare.
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Building: Doe Library
Completion
Date: 1917
Architect: John Galen Howard
How is the
window made?
Metal sash and frame. Rather big windows composed of 9 rather big single pane panel. Only one panel is operable through a simple cord. Recessed in the deep structural wall, helps in reducing the glare. Northern exposition. The mullion is darker color inside and green outside
How does it feel?
It
provides a pleasant diffuse daylight in the interior space. The glare is
not an issue, probably because of the northern exposition and because all
the windows sills are higher than human standard height.
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Building: Doe Library Annex, Bancroft
Library
Completion Date: 1949
Architect: Arthur Brown
How is the window
made?
Aluminum frame, operable (double hung). The windows facing east adopt white wooden venetians on the inside as shading device.
How
does it feel?
The size in combination with the exposition enhance glare
possibilities. On the east side due to the direct sun striking on them, on
the west side due to the light color of the very close adjacent building
reflecting light into the space.
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Building: Kroeber Hall
Completion
Date: 1959
Architect: Gardner A. Dailey
How is the
window made?
Metal sash and frame. Operable. Not too well
maintained. Rusty at times.
How does
it feel?
The very poor maintenance and cleaning make the
northern studios feel a bit dark.
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Building: Birge Hall
Completion
Date: 1964
Architect: Warnecke & Warnecke
How
is the window made?
Metal sash and frame. Operable.
How does it
feel?
The dark color of the frame in contast to the bright
color of the adjacent buildings enhance glare possibilities.
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Building: Bechtel Engineering Center
Completion
Date: 1980
Architect: George Matsumoto and Associates
How is
the window made?
Metal frame sash and frame. Not operable. The
mullion frame has an integrated horizontal aperture at mid height in order
to provide natural ventilation into the space inside. The glass is tinted
dark.
How does it feel?
Claustrophobic. The dark brown color of the tinted glass in combination
with interior colors and materials gives a claustrophobic feeling.
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Building: Tan Hall
Completion
Date: 1996
Architect: Campus Planning Study Group
How is the
window made?
Metal (aluminum) frame. Operable. Meta horizontal
shading device incorporated within the frame and the depth of the exterior
wall.
How does it feel?
Was not able to
access the building.
Building: Hearst Mining Retrofit
Completion
Date: 2003
Architect: John Galen Howard (original)
How is the window made?
In the old building retrofit almost all the windows are made of a very
solid and thick wooden frame. The color is dark brown. The big windows are
divided into multiple smaller and operable panels. The windows in the
addition parts of the building on the north side are made of metal frame (
curtain wall, not operable).
How does it
feel?
Wood frame: feel very solid; the depth of the bearing
wall reduce the glare. Metal frame: too much glare due to the size and
bright color of adjacent buildings especially on the north side, interior
shades are inevitable.
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